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Beat the Streak Report: Thursday, July 22

The bad news is that Wednesday was another tough day in Streakland, with Ichiro Suzuki, Omar Infante, Josh Hamilton and Vlad Guerrero eating donuts for dinner and destroying the hopes and dreams of about 15 percent of our nation-wide audience combined.

The medium news is that Carl Crawford put up an 0-for-0, pressing the pause button 7.5 percent of all streaks — that’s a lot of pausing — an incredible amount of pausation.

The great news is that Derrek Lee went 2-for-5 to extend my streak to a season-high 10 games. Did someone say I’m gaining some street cred around here? Have I possibly started to figure this whole thing out? Am I contemplating quitting my job so that I’ll be eligible for the $3,000,000 grand prize?

These are all good questions to ponder as we look at Thursday’s picks.

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I’m definitely riding the Teixeira wagon today. Not only is he hitting .368 in July but he even hits better right handed than left handed in his career. He hits Chen well so it’s obvious he is my choice. Yanks in Survivor and A Rod in HR BTS.

Teix still can’t hit at night though. His July night #s are still awful. But he owns Chen so that is probably enough to get him through. Although this is new Chen. The guy who is determined to stay in the big leagues.

I went with Jeter. He can still hit lefties. It don’t matter to me because I got resetted 2 days ago and got “resetted” again yesterday with all walks for Thome.

Another big PH wipe-out in the making with HRam out. Probably not going to PH unless Johnson blows the game early which is highly unlikely. I posted yesterday that he is gonna be rested soon by the mgr.

Votto too is unlikely to PH unless the Votron Volquez blows games early. Probably not gonna happen with down dominant the Voltron force was on his last start. And the mgr. really wanted to rest Votto for days already but couldn’t because of Rolen being out.

@btsplayer Yah i liked all the numbers associated with beltres game today..like my chances of him getting a hit but still holding my breathe and hoping my streak can get to 15 today!! lol meanwhile my brother is at 10 and chose denard span today..says he has a feeling span is gna get a multi hit game..guess we will see bout that!!

Highest no selection;
Beat the streak: 2 way Tie between “mean22” and “laaron26” (page 6) with streaks of 17
Survivor: “ianeb72199” (page 2) with a streak of 9
Home run: 2 way Tie between “cblueiis2” (page 1) “kmwoods20” (page 2) with streaks of 3
All of them are going back to 0 on their streaks in the respective game.

“I’m definitely riding the Teixeira wagon today. Not only is he hitting .368 in July but he even hits better right handed than left handed in his career. He hits Chen well so it’s obvious he is my choice. Yanks in Survivor and A Rod in HR BTS.”

The only reason I did not go there is that Chen has actually pitched pretty well this year.

A tip of my Cub cap to ooliber for working on the top 2500 list each day. Always interesting to see who they took.
Well I’m back at the 0 again in survivor. Hot Hammels outduels hot Wainwright in steamy St. Louey today.

“Another big PH wipe-out in the making with HRam out. Probably not going to PH unless Johnson blows the game early which is highly unlikely. I posted yesterday that he is gonna be rested soon by the mgr.”

Blog author goes down. Better keep his day job now!
Strategies: Pick 1 of these 5 for every game – Cano, Ichiro, Cabrera, Hamilton, & Longoria. What are odds all 5 will fall in same day? Close to 0%. Trick is not picking the 1 or 2 that will. Oh & if 1 or more of those don’t play, substitute with Prado, Polanco, Pujols, or another favorite.
Not my strategy, I rode the #5 horse of Twins to start a new streak. Gitty-up!

“On the subject of strategies…….does anyone know the strategy of the all-time BTS leader – the guy who made it to 49?????”

Mkaratzia: Timely and lucky and lemming picks. Hardly anything out of the ball park. The same startegies used by any other high streakers. That is bad pitching and strong hitting. I recall he rode Ichiro, Hanley, Magg and Braun hard. I could be wrong but I seem to recall those names.

“I’ll get ahead of my statistician brother-in-law and that would feel good!”

I just talked to Beltre. He says he doesn’t math geeks so he will bet a hit just for you. He said he was taking easy because the game is won already and was mostly thinking about picking put a dozen of Taco Bell Gorditas on the way back to hotel.

It seems like every night there is a no hitter or 2 in the making. Sometimes more than 2 a night. Next thing, Suppan will be throwing a perfect game. I guess all the hormones from 2 yrs ago are wearing off. Time to speak to Manny or A-Roid’s sources because this is not good for BTS.

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